Of course, as with any binary moral judgement, implicit in our condemnation of "them" is our exaltation of "us".

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When authors and orators have searched for ways to express the ultimate example of reverential exaltation, the periodically repeated scene in St.

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After a half-century, this remains a thrilling piece, and runs the scale of emotions from reverence to exaltation, all brilliantly executed by Ellington's elite corps of soloists.

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He approached this invisibility with a sort of exaltation.

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We seem to be a long way from the Exaltation of the Cross, the subject of the last scene in Gaddi's fresco cycle, in which the Emperor Heraclius, having alighted from his horse by order of an angel and walking barefoot like a mendicant friar, bears the relic into the holy city.

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